China
Content about workers' struggles and events in China.
Workers' struggles in China (January 2010 Part 2)
Summaries and links to news reports of workers' struggles around China (now including Hong Kong) in the last half of January.
Listed by date, most recent first.
Article in Chinese magazine urging collective bargaining.
http://www.clb.org.hk/en/node/100649
28th:
Staff at a Panasonic factory in Beijing are demonstrating to demand better severance pay.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2010-01/28/content_9390550.htm
26th:
General Perspectives on the Capitalist Development State and Class Struggle in East Asia
American left communist Loren Goldner on the capitalist development of east Asia, working class struggle, and the development of revolutionary politics in the region in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Published in 2009.
…in China as in Japan, the writings of the young Marx that laid the foundation for Marx’s uncompromising critique of the state were conspicuously absent…Marxism was scientific socialism as systematized by Engels and then by Stalin, even as Stalin was seeking not to eliminate but to build a powerful Russian nation-state after the revolution.”
1949-2007: Women workers in China
Wildcat analyse the situation, role and struggles of women in China from the Cultural Revolution until today.
Female Workers under Maoist Patriarchy
Workers' struggles in Asia (January 2010)
Summary and links to news stories of workers' struggles around Asia (exluding mainland China) in the first month of the decade (as of the 16th of January).
Sorted by country in alphabetical order.
Cambodia
Workers at a shoe factory walk out over sacking of union officials.
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2010011430831/National-news/workers-at-shoe-factory-pledge-to-extend-protest-against-firings.html
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2010011530872/National-news/shoe-factory-protesters-turn-up-heat.html
Hong Kong
Workers' struggles in China (January 2010)
Summaries and links to news reports of workers' struggles around China in the first month of the decade (as of the 16th of January).
Listed by date, most recent first.
15th:
Workers striking over unpaid wages in Suzhou, Jiangsu province smashed vehicles and blocked roads.
http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2010/01/workers-riot-in-suzhou/
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2010-01/16/content_12818239.htm
14th:
Protest over a death during a forced land eviction in Pizhou, Jiangsu province.
China: The generation of unhappy workers, 2007
Wildcat analyse the history and current situation of urban state workers in China, the employer attacks on them and the workers' responses.
Situation and protests of urban workers and unemployed
China's migrant workers
Wildcat's history and analysis of internal migration in China from the 1950s until today.
Article translated from German supplement "Unrest in China", wildcat #80, Winter 2007/08
Faces of Migration
1911-2007: Chinese immigration in France
Échanges et Mouvement describe and analyse immigration from China, and Chinese migrant workers in France from before World War I until today.
Evolution and general situation of immigration in France
Social struggles in the Chinese modernization process
Prol-Position write in 2006 on development and class struggle in China.
Wild Lily - Wang Shih-wei
Written in 1942 at the Communist base camp in Yenan, Wang Shih-wei criticises the hierarchical structure and privilege of the nascent Maoist bureaucracy in the camp. The article makes clear that the hierarchy was well established long before the 'Communist' Party came to state power in China in 1949. Wang was the most piercing, outspoken and unrepentant of the several literary critics who wrote articles with similar themes. This sealed his fate; the Maoist regime later executed Wang Shih-wei.
[This translation was originally published in 1975 with this introduction.]
